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black in the upper Part of the Body, according to Philoftratm ; 

 red, according to How^r; yellow, according x.o Paufanias ; and 

 Liican makes it a golden Colour *. 



The fame Hiftorian obferves, that in xh^ At lantick Moun- 

 tains, they kill where they touch, and thofe that are in the King,- 

 dom of Narfinga, and dwell in the Woods, kill all they meet. 

 Ibid, t 



I Presume, the Author nxtzxi^ Narfmga , a potent King- 

 dom, bounded on the Eaft with the Bay of ^f/zg'^/, that noble 

 Part of India., fays Herbert \ ; where the Monarch is always at- 

 tended with I coo for his Guards, has 5 or 6000 Jefters, and rec- 

 kons it one of his chief Titles to be the Hufband of a Thoufand 

 Wives. 



Dragons are Inhabitants of Africa and Af.a ; thofe of 

 Jndia exceed moft. in Largenefs and Longitude 5 In the Tower of 

 London, is the Skin of one, which is of vafl: Bulk. In Ethio- 

 pia., they have no Name for Dragons., but Killers of Elephant s^ 

 which is fuppofed to be the largeft of Land-Animals. 



Over the Water-gate in the City of Rhodes, there is fet up 

 the Head of a Dragon^ which was 33 Foot long, that wafted all 

 the Country, till it was flain by Deodate de Gozon, one of the 

 Knights of St. John Baptijl \\. The Knights of that Order had 

 frequently attack'd it, but in vain j for its Scales being proof a- 

 gainft all their Arms, it deflroyed fo many of them, that the 

 Grand Mafter forbad them to engage the Monfler any more. 



GOZON, whOj after feveral dangerous Onfets efcaped with 

 his Life, refolved to make another Trial by Stratagem ; perceiv- 

 ing it was no where vulnerable but in the Eyes and Belly, con- 

 trived the Refemblance of a Dragon by a Machine of Paftboard, 

 of equal Bulk with the Dragon, and by certain Springs made it 

 leap like a true Dragon : Having trained up a Couple of fierce 

 Dogs to attack it at the Belly, he went out privately one Morning, 

 weli-arm.ed on a managed Horfe with his Dogs, and rode up to the 



L 2 Den, 



* PHIofiratus de Vita Apol. li'o. jii, cap. 2. Homer. Iliad. lib. 12. L!ica72. Pharfal' 

 in Jimjtoni Hifioria Serpentum., p. :>5, -ij.. 



f Vnde qi-idam in ^rhnres & (hamo dracnves dijiinxere. 



X HisTiaveb into Africa and ^/<j, ihe tamous Empires of ?er[ia and hida- 

 Jian, — Oriental [flands. 



II Atlas Geog. 4natol .1,^. j^i,—^. from Taverjiiir ind Du MoM. 



